Pictured above: Liz Hobbs MBE, CEO of Liz Hobbs Group

Newark-based event and concert production company, Liz Hobbs Group Ltd, has been listed as the 20th fastest growing private company in the UK.

The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100, which will be published in The Sunday Times on Sunday 5 December, ranks Britain's 100 fastest growing private companies, based on sales growth over the last three years.

Liz Hobbs Group is recognised as the largest producer of music events to sporting venues in the UK.  In 2010, the company produced and staged 68 open air concerts featuring world-class artists including Rod Stewart and Westlife, attracting more than half a million people.

The Fast Track 100 is compiled by Fast Track, the Oxford based company that researches Britain's top performing private companies. It takes into account 1.5 million privately owned companies.

Liz Hobbs Group will be invited to attend an awards event at Richard Branson's Oxfordshire home in 2011, as well as regional dinners throughout the year.

Liz Hobbs Group's CEO, Liz Doogan-Hobbs MBE, said: "We're delighted to be officially recognised as one of the UK's fastest growing companies and to be ranked so highly makes us even more proud.

"We see this success as testament not only to the quality of our events and the business we have won and completed, but the loyalty and commitment of our customers that we value so highly and the hard work of our team who put in so much effort to make us what we are."